[ale] DNS issues

[Jim Philips]

Well, it seems to be better after recycling the modem. Maybe that was the 
whole problem.

On Sunday 06 February 2005 06:58 pm, M Raju wrote:
> Not sure about eveyone, but I had queries fail all day yesterday on SF
> DNS -[66.23.208.138, 66.23.208.142]
>
> Seems to be OK today...
>
> _Raju
>
> On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 18:10:49 -0500, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-02-06 at 17:35 -0500, Jim Philips wrote:
> > > I made numerous upgrades on my Slackware box earlier this week,
> > > including BIND. Now DNS seems to have gone crazy. Sometimes I can't
> > > retrieve mail. When I try the following:
> > >
> > > dig mail.speedfactory.net
> >
> > Works for me.  I get IP 66.23.201.84.
> >
> > # dig mx speedfactory.net
> >
> > speedfactory.net.  3600  IN  MX  20 duke.speedfactory.net.
> > speedfactory.net.  3600  IN  MX  10 duchess.speedfactory.net.
> >
> > ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> > duchess.speedfactory.net. 3600  IN  A  66.23.201.84
> > duke.speedfactory.net.  3600    IN  A  66.23.201.83
> >
> > Hmmm, not very reliable having both listed MX records on the same
> > subnet. <sigh>
> >
> > > I get a message back saying no servers could be reached. The DNS
> > > servers in /etc/resolv.conf are the correct ones for Speedfactory, as
> > > far as I know. This is what I have:
> > >
> > > nameserver 66.23.208.138
> >
> > # host 66.23.208.138
> > resolves as ns.speedfactory.net from other networks.
> >
> > # host ns.speedfactory.net
> > returns 66.23.217.98.
> >
> > # host ns.speedfactory.net 66.23.208.138
> > (timeout)
> >
> > > nameserver 66.203.208.142
> >
> > # host 66.203.208.142
> > Host 142.208.203.66.in-addr.arpa not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
> >
> > # host ns2.speedfactory.net
> > ns2.speedfactory.net has address 66.23.208.142
> >
> > # host ns.speedfactory.net 66.203.208.142
> > (timeout)
> >
> > http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=speedfactory.net
> > Hmmm.
> >
> > > But some addresses just can't be found even when I have a perfectly
> > > good PPP connection. This issue doesn't exist in Windows (which I'm
> > > using now) so it has to be a Linux issue. Any further ideas on what I
> > > should check?
> >
> > Assuming that SF isn't having issues, what does "iptables --list -n"
> > show?  Is it blocking mail/dns?
> >
> > -Jim P.
> >
> >
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